[Gluster-users] Setup for production - which one would you choose?

[Oliver Hoffmann]

Yes, that's an idea. Thanx. That will be important for all the debian
clients, mostly lenny.

I think waiting and testing a month is quite ok though.

> To have glusterfs 3.0.3 on ubuntu 9.10 you can also just install the
> debian package for gluster 3.0.3 with dpkg -i.
> 
> http://packages.debian.org/source/sid/glusterfs
> 
> But then 10.04 is only a month away, so depends how much of a rush
> your in!
> 
> 
> 
> On Wednesday 24 Mar 2010 16:45:40 Oliver Hoffmann wrote:
> > Haha, there are loads of Linux distributions out there and even
> > strange OSes like *BSD or windooze or what's it called? ;-)
> > 
> > I tried out Gentoo a while ago but I droped it because all the
> > compiling took way too long. The big plus here is the big minus on
> > debian like systems. The current Ubuntu 9.10 for example has
> > glusterfs 2.0.9, period. If you want to have 3.0.2 then you have to
> > wait for Ubuntu 10.04 or you compile it. 
> > But now that we have (almost) 10.04 with 3.0.2 I'll take this way.
> > Having such a system up and running on recent hardware is a matter
> > of maybe 10 or 20 minutes.
> > 
> > Cheers!
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > > On 22/03/2010 17:59, Oliver Hoffmann wrote:
> > > > Hi all,
> > > >
> > > > I just made some tests on two old machines using Ubuntu 10.4
> > > > (server i386) with fuse-2.7.4glfs11 and glusterfs-3.0.3. At a
> > > > first glance it seems to be OK.
> > > > The next step is deploying a system which could be used for
> > > > production. What would you suggest? Ubuntu 10.4 (server 64bit)
> > > > is my first choice because of LTS. Whatsoever, I think it is
> > > > more the version of glusterfs which makes it stable or not,
> > > > isn't it? In the end I'd like to have a distributed&
> > > > replicated storage which provides data for a bunch of
> > > > (virtualized) LAMPS.
> > > >
> > > > TIA for your recommendations!
> > > >    
> > > 
> > > I'm intrigued.  I had not realised that there were other options
> > > than Gentoo for use on a server?!  (Bang up to date, flexible
> > > configuration and strong support of various virtualisation
> > > solutions.  Slight negative in update speeds, but can be
> > > mitigated by using a binary package cache)
> > > 
> > > Will try out those new fangled options you suggested above, but in
> > > the meantime have a look at Gentoo (at least if you are fairly
> > > confident with your linux skills).  Big plug for linux-vservers
> > > also, especially in combination with some custom server profiles
> > > to define required software versions and options
> > > 
> > > Good luck
> > > 
> > > Ed W
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